The One From The Anderfels

ka:  Is he everything you wanted ?

ku: You have everyone in the palm of your hand.

ka: Is it really gonna be you and him, until the end?

ku: Were you really made to mess with everyone's head?

Ka: Dont wanna think about it, don't wanna talk about it, just so confused about it, tell me if this is fair?

ku: Is this the way it's really going on down? is this how we say goodbye?  How do we move on with him lying in this bed.

ka: Should've known better when you came around that were gonna make me cry. It's breaking my heart to watch you run around yet I know I have no right.

ku: Are we all living a lie?

ka: I told you what goes around come back around.

ku: It's all just a shame. When you play with fire, you hurt and get hurt. A classic case scenario.

Ka: This is not what we signed up for.

Ku: This is not how it’s meant to be. This this how you start a war.

ka: A tale as old as time. I thought I told you, baby. What goes around comes back around...

kagami: let's ask each other questions to get to know each other better

kise: okay! what's your favourite colour kagamicchi?

It's Kise's birthday and Aomine decided to spend some time with him. They're not dating yet but Aomine is more and more aware of the place Kise is taking in his life and in his heart.

The thing is he doesn't know what to gift Kise. He knows Kaijo's team already bought him a cake and he's sure he has plans with his family for the night. He doesn't know what he could possibly give Kise that he wants or can't have; especially when he knows he's got pounds of chocolate, flowers and all around homemade charms and stuff from his fans. Stuff he left in Kanagawa before joining Aomine in Tokyo at least.

Of course, Kise demands a one-on-one from him since it's his birthday but Aomine doesn't feel like doing something so predictible as much as basketball with Kise is always satisfying. Especially when he has the excuse to do something out of his usual Aomine-box. Although for now, just the prospect of doing some window shopping is making Kise happy. They also plan to get lunch somewhere soon. Aomine wonders if paying for both of them is a good enough present.

He then spots a poster on the glass window of what seems to be a tea-house. It looks anything like the usual joints he eats at and somehow it's perfect for Aomine. He drags Kise inside.

They don't have teryaki hamburgers and fries but they order gyoza and oyaki and Aomine tries out some hamburg steak that turns out to be not as bad he imagined. He asks for seconds. They take their time, and Aomine finds himself genuinly enjoying this moment despite being a tea-house with bubble-gum paperpaint, posters of voicaloid chibis and sitting on a cushioned chair too small for his taste.

After a while, he stands up and make his way to the counter. Kise thinks he wants something else, but Aomine orders one last thing. It's the reason why he choose this joint in the first place. He comes back to his seat, a waitress comes to clean their table.

Kise is in the middle of a bubbly recounting when their waitress comes by and put down a 2 foot tall chocolate parfait so huge Kise's face disapears from Aomine's field of view.

Kise staggers backwards in surprise as the waitress wishes them to enjoy their dessert with a big smile.

Kise asks what's going on and Aomine just shrugs and say "It's your birthday and parfaits are your favorite, right?"

Kise is a tiny bit chook and he replies "Yes, but this too much..."

Aomine watches as Kise stares at the huge glass of ice cream, how his eyes almost cross when they get to the whipped cream topping, and he likes the picture it makes. He looks so fucking cute looking both scared and impressed that it makes Aomine feel proud somehow.

"It's your birthday present; And if it has to be an ice cream, then it won't be a lame one."

Kise looks at him, silently at first and then he cracks a smile. "Thank you Aominecchi. But you know I won't be able to--"

"Don't--" Aomine blushes as he notices how abrutly he cuts in. He composes himself and his speech one more time since he was going to go with 'don't give me your stupid model diet speech.' He knows Kise don't like it when you mock his imposed diet."Don't worry about your diet. And it not like I won't help you eat it. And also, I'll help burn it out if you must. Wi--with basketball I mean."

Kise is almost glowing, Aomine notices when he peeks at him. He looks so soft with his cheeks pink with the warm food they just had. He's smiling but it's one of those rare smiles. The shy kind. The one you get to see if you manage to surprise Kise with spontaneous kindness. He will look anywhere but your face, trying to hold this tiny smiling pout that puffs up his cheeks. “You thought of everything, haha.”

"Yep, I'm a quick thinker, did you forget." Aomine preens. He grabs the spoon and stops himself from digging in at the last second. "Ah, shit, it's yours so you gotta start first."

Kise chuckles as he grabs his spoon. "You know that this will take us hours."

Aomine just shrugs. "So what."

It's two syllables but their meaning is enough to make Kise's smile break into a buoyant grin and his amber orbs suddenly reflect the summer sunlight like shot silk in the sunshine.

Kise digs in with a newly itadakimasu and hums in appreciation. "So yummy!"

Aomine automatically thanks the Gods inwardly that this crazy 23,6 inches tall dessert he bought didn't turn out to be crap on top of being expensive. Kise is a picky eater after all. Aomine bites on a pretz, "Yep, you like the chocolate?"

“Yep, It’s really good! I love it-ssu!”

The hardest part funnily enough was choosing a flavor out of the six offered. He knows Kise enjoys strawberry but in the end, he optes for chocolate cause he likes it better and thinks Kise never minded chocolate syrup on his crepes anyways. After all, he knows he'd have to help the poor boy with it. Might as well pick something they can both enjoy.

And enjoy they do. They don't count the time they spend in that kawai-cloying joint, time doesn't cross their mind at any point even. They take many breaks from the ice cream but they're having so much fun with it. Kise sends picures of it to everyone and their mother and he reads everyone's comments on his social medias to Aomine while they're taking a break.